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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1976
Page
2
Dow Jones indexes show declines at 1 pm with the 30 industrials at 977.34 down 3.99, the 20 railroad/transports at 220.48 down 1.69, the utilities up 0.03 to 91.10, and the overall stock average at 306.33 off 1.36.
UPI dispatch from Omaha shows hogs 3,000 head with mostly 75 lower. No 1-3 200-240 lb 45.25, 240-260 lb 44.50-45.25, some 45.50. No 2-3 260-270 lb 43.50-44.00, 270-280 lb 43.00-43.50, 280-290 lb 42.00-43.00, 290-340 lb 40.50-42.50. Cows steady with some 25 lower. utility and commercial cows 24.00-25.50, load 26.00, canner/cutter 20.00-23.00. Cattle and calves 300, not enough test. Friday estimates cattle/calves 200, hogs 2,500, no sheep.
The Nebraska Natural Resources Commission announced the formation of Policy Advisory Committees for Nebraska’s 13 river basins. Each committee will include local elected officials, residents affected by clean water efforts, and a commission member. They will request technical data, align with local concerns, and recommend basin policies, starting work by early fall.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange prices for live cattle frozen pork bellies and live hogs show varied sessions with settlements across August through February futures. Notable entries include Live Cattle August at 39.30 and February at 44.10, Frozen Pork Bellies August 64.50, February 57.50, and Live Hogs around 43.30 for August.
Vietnamese deputy foreign minister Phan Hien led a five-member delegation to Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand to establish or improve formal relations with ASEAN members. While optimism is cautious, diplomats see the moves as a new phase in Hanoi’s diplomacy after reunification.
A Business International survey shows Tokyo as the most expensive city, with Osaka Stockholm Zurich and Geneva following. It notes Lagos Nigeria and Dhakjar Indonesia as higher than New York, and gives rent figures with Zurich averaging $650 and Dublin $240.
Cincinnati UPI reports at a national fertilizer convention E A Harre of the TVA Fertilizer Development Center notes a hectic year with a 12 percent rise in total fertilizer movement. TVA official B J Bond cites fertilizer use driving 37 percent of U S crop production and forecasts export crop fertilizer to 8.2 million tons by 1985, double 1974.
Three hundred Nebraska banks will join NETS to offer universal access through 400 terminals in outlets and lobbies. The system aims to allow withdrawals deposits transfers and interbank funds movements with a $1.3 million three year commitment to MICOR Inc. for the switching center as regulators review antitrust concerns.
Robert W. Lemmer, 60, of Lexington, was killed on Interstate 80 near Cozad Nebraska when a semi slammed into a state signal truck and pushed it into the rear of a state dump truck. He had just exited the dump truck and was run over as the vehicles surged forward, state patrol reported.
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